This story contains graphic descriptions of self-harm. When Chae first saw Angela Vandusen, a.k.a. @angelatheegoddess, on her TikTok For You page last year, she was instantly smitten. A 27-year-old based in Michigan, Vandusen was a home health care aide and an aspiring natural-oils entrepreneur, but she had amassed many devoted …
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Despite “meaningful discussions” with prosecutors, Tory Lanez hasn’t reached a plea deal in his felony assault case and is now set to face live testimony next month alleging he shot Megan Thee Stallion in her feet with a semiautomatic gun last year. The “SKAT” rapper’s defense lawyer Shawn Holley appeared …
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Days before the Fugees were set to begin their long-awaited reunion tour, the trio have postponed the trek until 2022. Following their brief-but-triumphant gig in New York in September for the Global Citizen Live event, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel were scheduled to embarked on their 25th anniversary …
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About 10 minutes into the annual Robin Hood Foundation benefit at New York’s Javits Center on Wednesday night, Bruce Springsteen took the stage following an introduction by host Cecily Strong. The crowd of around 3,000 had just taken their seats in a room roughly the side of an airplane hangar …
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Leave it to Parquet Courts, the ever-inventive, erudite indie rock outfit, to make a pandemic record before the pandemic. The Brooklyn band’s seventh album, Sympathy for Life, out October 22nd, is a meditation on technology, alienation, and impersonal relationships; masks are a recurring theme, albeit in a more classic psychological …
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On the same day Blood Sugar Sex Magick celebrates its 30th birthday, the Red Hot Chili Peppers revealed that they will embark on a global stadium tour in 2022. The band made the announcement in a faux-news broadcast, with co-anchors Johnson Hammerswaddle (or Anthony Kiedis) and Todd the Squirrel (Flea) …
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Dame Time, they call it, when Damian Lillard dominates on the basketball court with such fierce self- assurance — such shrug-off deployment of every skill in the bag — that his buzzer-beater stare has become a meme staple of NBA Twitter. Off the court, the Portland Trail Blazers superstar point …
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The morning after Britney Spears’ father Jamie was removed from the singer’s conservatorship, he called the court’s decision Wednesday “disappointing, and frankly, a loss for Britney.” “Mr. Spears loves his daughter Britney unconditionally,” Jamie Spears’ statement — issued through his lawyer Vivian Thoreen to Rolling Stone — read. “For 13 …
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After reopening the investigation into the death of Tamla Horsford last year, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) concluded their inquiry earlier this year. No charges will be filed in the case of the 40-year-old mother of five, found face-down in the backyard of a friend’s Forsyth County home the …
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On September 6th, 2021, Michael Kenneth Williams was found dead in his home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Early reports claimed that drug paraphernalia was found in the apartment and the death was being investigated as a drug overdose. A toxicology report released on September 24th confirmed that cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin …
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